#refer

At the same time, new concepts and abstractions flow into the picture, taking up the task of describing the universe without reference to such time or space - abstractions for which our language lacks adequate terms. ↗

— Benjamin Whorf

#concepts #describing #flow #into #lacks

Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing. ↗

— Ang Lee

#director #established #i #kind #much

I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#every time #i #learning #musician #myself

I hate the idea of natural. For example, I prefer gardens to wild nature. I like to see the human touch. High heels are a complete invention - an extravagance. They're far from natural, but it's the impracticality that I adore. I prefer the useless to the useful, the sophisticated to the natural. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#complete #example #extravagance #far #for example

I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works. ↗

— Camille Claudel

#bohemia #cost #effort #here #huge

Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

#intended #man #principles #provide #reference

When the pressure comes, preferences give way while convictions hold firm. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#convictions #firm #give #hold #preferences

Ultimately Warhol's private moral reference was to the supreme kitsch of the Catholic church. ↗

— Allen Ginsberg

#catholic church #church #kitsch #moral #private

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#christ #converted #ever #i #poor

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. ↗

— David Deutsch

#complexity #contain #deepest #explanations #hierarchy